Settlement Reached In SiriusXM Interns' Class Action Suit

August 4, 2015 at 3:57 AM (PT)

A motion for settlement has been filed in an intern's class action lawsuit against SIRIUSXM RADIO alleging that the company should have paid its interns but did not. SIRIUS will pay $1,297,350 into a settlement fund to settle the suit, covering awards to claimants, attorney's fees, and other fees.

The motion was filed jointly on MONDAY (8/3) by the attorneys for plaintiffs JUSTIN VITETTA (who replaced MELISSA TIERNEY as named plaintiff) and DANIEL MILLER and attorneys for SIRIUSXM in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NEW YORK.

The suit claimed that SIRIUSXM interns "routinely performed the most mundane and repetitive tasks that were nonetheless essential to SIRIUSXM’s operations, and thus undeniably reduced the need for additional paid employees and greatly benefitted SIRIUS" but that "interns were not provided any training similar to an educational environment."